Robert Jameson
1774
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1854
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Great Britain
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Edinburgh, Leith Academy
occupation: ornithologist, university teacher, geologist
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
position held: Regius Professor of Natural History
student of: Abraham Gottlob Werner
Robert Jameson FRS FRSE (11 July 1774 – 19 April 1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist. As Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, developing his predecessor John Walker's concepts based on mineralogy into geological theories of Neptunism which held sway into the 1830s. Jameson is notable for his advanced scholarship, and his museum collection. The minerals and fossils collection of the Museum of Edinburgh University became one of the largest in Europe during Jameson's long tenure at the university. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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